Engagement announced of Marjorie Cook, schoolteacher of 42 Kennedy Road to Cyril Henry Newell Savage, Inspector of shipwrights of HM Naval Dockyard. SCMP, June 26, 1949.
Cyril Savage came out to Hong Kong in 1947. His fiancée and future wife, Marjorie Cook, née Warnes, had been previously married to John Turnbull Cook. Their divorce had been granted in Macao just after the Japanese invasion. Marjorie Cook was interned in Stanley. Her daughter Daphne had earlier been adopted by her sister, Iris Gaby and brought up with her own daughter, Sally Gaby in Amoy and Foochow, where her husband, Cyril Gaby worked for the Chinese customs. The family was interned in Shanghai and then included in a POW swap in 1941, as mentioned in my post on Marjorie. At the end of the war Marjorie went to Australia to see her daughter. Daphne did not want to accompany her mother back to Hong Kong, having spent her whole life with the Gabys. Marjorie returned to Hong Kong to teach shorthand. When Cyril Savage retired, they both returned to his family town of Gillingham, Kent, but when Cyril died in 1974 Marjorie decided to emigrate to Australia in order to spend the rest of her life near her daughter and her sister. Although a grandchild of John Olson (my great-grandfather) a first cousin of his son, John and half-cousin of Charles E. Warren's children, none apparently knew of Marjorie's second marriage to Cyril Savage and her later life in England, where they would theoretically have been able to meet.